Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
May 10, 2023

Rating provider S&P Global has examined the relationship between crypto assets and macroeconomics in a new report. Its conclusion is a firm “maybe” and the details are complex, mainly due to “idiosyncratic events” such as the crypto winter , geography

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will make his first appearance before Congress on May 16 to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) regulation in the United States during a hearing on oversight. Also testifying will be IBM’s VP of trust and privacy, Christina

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The United States Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have filed 45 claims worth $44 billion against bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its subsidiaries. In what appears to be a tax bill for FTX’s sister company Alameda Research

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On May 10, American business magnate Elon Musk tweeted a meme created using imagery from the Milady nonfungible tokens (NFT) collection. Shortly thereafter, the floor price of Milady NFTs spiked from 3.8 Ether (ETH) to as high as 7.3 ETH

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On May 10, local news outlet Hankyung reported that Do Kwon, co-founder and former CEO of Terraform Labs, had over 233.3 billion Korean Won ($176 million) in personal assets frozen as part of ongoing criminal proceedings. Chief Judge Yun Chan-Young

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Tabi, the nonfungible token marketplace previously as Treasureland, has completed a $10 million angel funding round, the BNB Chain-based platform announced on May 10. The funding was seeded by venture capital firms Animoca Brands, Binance Labs, Draper Dragon, Hashkey Capital,

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The United States consumer price index rose 4.9% annually, which was slightly less than estimates of a 5% increase. The CPI’s monthly rise of 0.4% in April was in line with expectations. Although inflation remains stubbornly higher than the Federal

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On May 10, nonfungible tokens (NFT) financialization protocol ParaSpace published several alleged irregularities tying its CEO, founder, and CTO Yubo Ruan to the mismanagement of funds equaling 2,909 Ether (ETH) recovered through a white-hat interception that occurred on March 18.

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Moderators on Reddit began to take action on crypto-related Pepe the Frog hype flooding into the meme’s original subreddits after the explosion of the $PEPE memecoin. On May 9, a moderator for the “r/pepethefrog” pinned a post in which they

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The efforts of many charities organizations are often hampered by the red tape of bureaucracy, and the presence of hierarchical structures within these organizations can complicate matters even further.  To bypass this inefficient rigamarole, PactDAO co-founder Marisa Rando suggests that

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